Over the last few days I have been conducting a few experiments to look at a number of challenges, while also having a little bit of fun playing with some nice new shiny toys and technology. The big goals were to see: a) how easy it would be to integrate Biomedical Concepts (BCs) with FHIR… Continue reading…
Tag: CDISC
A Left Side and a Right Side
I have long been searching for that one picture, a simple one-pager that can be used to explain some of the issues we face in creating and using standards. A few months ago I drew the first version of the diagram below and then shared it with one or two people, discussed it a little… Continue reading…
Light, A Tunnel and another Grand Départ
As quite a few of you will know I follow professional road cycling. Even with the dark side of the sport with the various doping scandals I love cycling, I love riding myself and I love watching the sport, and no race comes bigger than the Tour de France. The 2016 edition will start at Mont-St-Michel on… Continue reading…
Wear Sunscreen
An odd title for a blog post on clinical data standards; the words come from a famous essay by Mary Schmich written for the Chicago Tribune entitled “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young”. I was reminded of it on the flight home from the CDISC Interchange in Vienna because within the essay… Continue reading…
CDISC Standards: Assessing the Impact of Change
Introduction This post relates to the presentation given on Wednesday 27th April at the CDISC EuroInterchange in Vienna. As in previous years this post provides a narrative to go with the slides as my slides tend to be rather pictorial. Hopefully the write-up will provide those who attended something useful to refer to post the event while, for those who could… Continue reading…
A Failed Promise And A Flawed Model
I did promise to write every week but that didn’t appear to go that well. My defence is that I was a little reluctant to write about something I was having some doubts about. I’ll explain below. So … Research Concepts, Biomedical Concepts, Clinical Models, Archetypes … there are probably a few other names I… Continue reading…
Step Three & Keeping My Promise
It is getting towards the end of the week and I am conscious of a slide I presented in Vienna at the PhUSE conference and a promise to write up progress, lessons learned and anything else I can think of that might be useful. I am also thinking it might be beneficial to some to… Continue reading…
I Want It All
Recently I was invited to present at an event organized by the PSDM (Pharmaceutische Statistiek en Data Management). The PSDM, and I quote from their website, is a Dutch network group of statisticians, clinical programmers and data managers working in and for the pharmaceutical industry. The title for the event was “Implementation of CDISC standardization: Pragmatic… Continue reading…
Over For Another Year
I always lament the passing of July. As we leave the third week of the month it mark the passing of my annual cycling extravaganza, the Tour de France. This year I managed to spend the first week in France watching the race following it from Northern France down across the north of the country… Continue reading…
Simple MDR Tools
Last 5 Posts In Series A Bit Of A Tangent Terminology And ISO 25964 All Things To All Men – ISO 11179 So Many To Choose From Requirements & Technology In yesterday’s post I outlined the simple MDR and study build tool that I have been put together over the last few weeks. As I… Continue reading…